Congress: US repeated 9/11 failures in Xmas plot

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/18/10 | Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – Despite a top-to-bottom overhaul of the intelligence community after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the security system showed some of the same failures nearly a decade later and allowed a would-be bomber to slip aboard an airliner, congressional investigators said Tuesday.

The Senate intelligence Committee report at times contradicted the Obama administration's assertion that the nearly catastrophic Christmas Day bombing attempt was unlike 9/11 because it represented a failure to understand intelligence, not a failure to collect and understand it.

The congressional review is more stark than the Obama administration's report. It lays much of the blame at the feet of the National Counterterrorism Center, which Congress created to be the primary agency in charge of analyzing terrorism intelligence.

The NCTC is the government's clearinghouse for terrorism information and is the only government agency that can access all intelligence and law enforcement information.

[DoughtyOne]

Gee, really? Talk about your Captain Obvious moment...

[Diogenesis]

under Obama, the U.S. Government Pays $23,000 a Month
to Mosque of Ft. Hood Shooting Supporter Al-Awlaki

"Obama Obama shifts FBI from Counter Terrorism to Fraud"

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"Victims of Cole bombing upset
"A top officer slammed Obama's decision to seek the withdrawal of charges against the 2000 suspected U.S.S. Cole ship bomber."

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"Impeach Obama Says Sister of Cole Sailor Killed in Terror Attacks
"The sister of Seaman James McDaniels, a sailor killed in the terror attack on the U.S.S. Cole wants President Barack Hussein Obama impeached
over his decision to withdraw charges against the al Qaeda mastermind of the attack."

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"Mother of USS Cole Sailor Declines Obama-meet, Says "I Voted for the Wrong Person"
"After Obama dropped the charges against the suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole,
he asked the families of the victims in that tragedy to meet with him.
One mother refused, and now says,"I voted for the wrong person."

[Carley]

These pictures still make me cry.